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Message   digimaus    Kevin Nunn   Re: Closing up Telnet   March 15, 2022
 5:54 PM *  

-=> Kevin Nunn wrote to Nick Andre <=-

 KN> I think the only firewall available for OS/2 is Injoy sadly.

Nope.  OS/2 has a port of the AIX firewall built-in.  Little-known, poorly
documented: the IBM way/

 KN> I am thinking about using an extra Pi and setup a firewall on it, and
 KN> just point the incoming port from the router to the Pi, then from Pi to
 KN> the BBS and block based on IP at the Pi. That's really a bad way to do
 KN> it, but might be my best option.

It'd be a hell of a lot less work by setting up the OS/2 firewall but
especially so by setting up pfSense.  Now I protect my SSH port using
fail2ban but pfSense would be a better option even with port forwarding set
up.

(looks at the pfSense box running under his desk)

-- Sean

... Parallel lines have so much in common.
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